I am running Win XP Pro SP2 and don;t see a need to update to SP3 just yet. I
therefore want to stop WU telling me that SP3 is ready to download. Any
suggestions how to do this? (For some updates, it has been possible to
de-select them in the updates utility, but I can't see a way of doing this
with SP3.)

Many thanks in anticipation!

Adam

Hello Adam,

You will probably get some other opinions -- and suggested methods -- from
contributors here, but I recommend that you download a 'Service Pack
Blocker' tool from Microsoft at
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/d...displaylang=en

This will allow you to turn on Automatic Updates, but keep SP3 from
automatically being downloaded and installed for '12 months following
general availability' -- so it should be effective until May, 2009.

Alan

"Adam" <Adam@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A8CBD2FB-6CDA-406F-A4E8-D660F9364DC1@microsoft.com...
>I am running Win XP Pro SP2 and don;t see a need to update to SP3 just yet.
>I
> therefore want to stop WU telling me that SP3 is ready to download. Any
> suggestions how to do this? (For some updates, it has been possible to
> de-select them in the updates utility, but I can't see a way of doing this
> with SP3.)
>
> Many thanks in anticipation!
>
> Adam

Is Automatic Updates set to "Automatic" or another setting, Adam?

Is Automatic Updates telling you that SP3 is ready to *install* or are you
being prompted to download (literally) it?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since 2002
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Adam wrote:
> I am running Win XP Pro SP2 and don;t see a need to update to SP3 just
> yet.
> I therefore want to stop WU telling me that SP3 is ready to download. Any
> suggestions how to do this? (For some updates, it has been possible to
> de-select them in the updates utility, but I can't see a way of doing this
> with SP3.)
>
> Many thanks in anticipation!
>
> Adam